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Of the new fabric's principal—Capital.
That we seem to live in a road-block age.
That paper battling is still stifling sabre rattling.
That there are sufficient branches and classes of transport.
The advice "Keep your rear number-plate in the limelight."
From the, pessimist: "Roads up, petrol up, everything's up ! "
Of arresting advertisement slogans from houses with a lineage.
More than the usual amount of the hammer in Hammersmith.
Of British light-van value that should tickle buyers' palates.
Time and again of that Motor Taxation report, but no more than hears.
Of persistent attempts to produce hydrocarbon oil from liquefied coal.
Of floods in Wales, and motor passenger services still going swimmingly.
Of terminal inexactitudes being responsible for high-tension expletives.
That a sure remedy for "standing charges" is to utilize demountable flats.
How much goods traffic that was rail-bound is now road-bound in the rebound. .
That the City of London bar, though loosened, is not yet undone to the L.C.C. car.
That the latest American prohibition war-cry is " Down with whisky and whrskers! "
Of well-tuned " high-frequency" distributors being despatched to lie Dominions.
That our latest frictionless Change-over is the wonder of Europe—and of South America.
That to normalize the temper, it is necessary to colour the various steels in the rough stores.
That democratic orders for fewer feathers won't affect certain radiator caps from Wolverhampton.
That the Government may soon embark upon a large,-seale programme of road construction and reconstruction by direct action.
Of famous academicians' railway posters—then why not a response from motordom typifying " Places we have outdistanced," by the torque member.
Our English roads in pre-war days Were top-hole, were they not? Now they are chiefly pot-hole The top has gone to pot. Of veering viewers.
That Paris is no place for a pussyfoot.
The query, "Are there too many buses ? "
And the answer, "Not so long as there are any tramcars left."
That the Brush bus bodies should have sweeping lines.
Of many unworkable schemes for relieving traffic congestion.
That a well-made worm-axle will naturally promote pride of lead.
The body-finisher soliloquizing :—" Here to-day and gone to-morrow."
That frost acting on waterlogged subsoil car, easily burst roads.
That it costs approximately fourpence to colour 1,030 gallons of petrol.
That all-weather coaches are an absolute necessity in all-weather England.
Of somebody who described his van as a topping goer with a tipping gear.
That people who live at Tipton, Staffordshire, think that central heating can be overdone.
That the few remaining links are being added to the chain of bus_services throughout the country.
That petrol has been tapped at a depth of only 25 feet at La Madeleine in the Lot Department, France.
That, because of so much adjacent plate-glass, busy. narrow, mud-stricken thoroughfares ought to be well carpeted.
That the drivers of the Mobiloil fleet are being encouraged to extend the -utmost courtesy to other road users.
That an enamelled plate at the back of each lorry carries a request for following vehicles to hoot. 0- That the continuous steam washer is superseding the older methods of cleaning parts in paraffin or caustic soda baths.
Of successful road tests of engines with pistons made from compressed fibre with special heads which insulate them from heat.
Too many new roads remain unused the while much used old ones cry out for more money to be spent on them for the benefit of those who pay.